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How to Make a $10 Acai Bowl for $3

The Acai bowl has taken the food world by storm over the last 6 months or so. Honestly, I’m a very late adopter to this trend. I know that Acai are healthy, but I wasn’t quite on board with this trend just yet.

Ironically, the thing that got me on board was a ridiculously priced version of this dish. While I was traveling a few weeks ago, I noticed a $10 version of an Acai bowl at a popular juice spot. I actually tried it just to see what could possibly worth $10.

I mean, it was good, but $10!?

I think these places are taking advantage of of trending food right now and your wallet is suffering if you are regularly buying these bowls. When I got home, I did a little research and figured out that (shockingly) you could make a homemade version of these bowls for about $3.

Helpful Equipment

Directions

1) Run Acai packets under hot water for a few seconds. Then break up and add to blender with blueberries, coconut water, coconut milk, banana, and syrup (or honey). Blend until smooth.

2) Transfer mixture to two bowls and top with handfuls of granola. Add fresh fruits and fresh mint.

Serve immediately while very cold.

What is an Acai Bowl?

Guys, it’s a smoothie that you eat with a spoon. That’s all it is. You can put anything in it that you would put in a smoothie. The idea is to make it slightly thicker though so you can’t drink it. Making it thicker makes it feel more like a meal, but it’s not rocket science (add less liquid).

The hardest part of this whole thing is hunting down the named ingredient. You can’t really find raw Acai or even frozen berries as far as I could tell. At least, they are not commonly available. What is though is this puree stuff that’s already perfectly sized for smoothies and bowls.

Four of these packets will set you back about $6. That seems like a lot until you compare it to the $40 you would spend at a smoothie bar on the same amount.

The stuff.

Making the Bowl

Team, this is just a smoothie. Toss the stuff in your blender. I added a banana, some frozen blueberries, agave syrup, and some coconut water and coconut milk to mine. The coconut milk isn’t totally necessary, but it smooths out some of the bitterness of the acai and makes it really creamy and delicious.

In the blender.

You might have to use a spoon to occasionally stir the smoothie while it blends (turn off the blender first!) because this mixture should be pretty thick.

It sounds crazy, but this finished mixture kind of tastes like slightly melted ice cream.

GOOD.

Toppings Galore

You can pile on whatever toppings you want to this bowl. Any nuts or fruit would go just fine. I went with some delicious fresh berries, a handful of granola for some crunch, and fresh mint.

Toppings galore

Toss this all together and you are looking at one delicious breakfast.

I’ll spare you the math, but because you don’t use a ton of ingredients for each bowl serving, the cost per bowl is pretty low. It works out to about $3/bowl or maybe $4/bowl at the max if you use organic berries and stuff.

No matter what though, it’ll be as delicious as anything you buy at a smoothie shop and you can make it your own!

Exactly what I was thinking, actually after I did the math a 10$ smoothie bowl from a store is much more cheaper than a homemade one. Acai packets 5$, Berries 5$~, other ingredients 5$+,, we already reached 15$ and the more toppings you add the more expensive it gets..
It’s a great recipe don’t get me wrong, thank you for it! It’s just that it’s not really cheaper, I came to this post hoping that it’s really a 3$ Acai bowl, but turns out nothing different it’s still expensive and not 3$. I tried everything, simply there is nothing called a cheap Acai bowl, or at least that’s what I personally learned after looking for all possible ways.

Nice but hey dont know the price! My sistwr owns her own vegan spot and her bowls are that expensive bc she hand makes them… with all organic products… fresh… daily… so yeah they are worth the money! Great to make yourself but worth the price of someone else making them too❤❤

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